Downloads & Free Reading Options - Results

This article is from Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , volume 128 . Abstract Objective: To review the literature on psychological and biological findings on resilience (i.e. the successful adaptation and swift recovery after experiencing life adversities) at the level of the individual, and to integrate findings from animal and human studies. Method: Electronic and manual literature search of MEDLINE, EMBASE and PSYCHINFO, using a range of search terms around biological and psychological factors influencing resilience as observed in human and experimental animal studies, complemented by review articles and cross-references. Results: The term resilience is used in the literature for different phenomena ranging from prevention of mental health disturbance to successful adaptation and swift recovery after experiencing life adversities, and may also include post-traumatic psychological growth. Secure attachment, experiencing positive emotions and having a purpose in life are three important psychological building blocks of resilience. Overlap between psychological and biological findings on resilience in the literature is most apparent for the topic of stress sensitivity, although recent results suggest a crucial role for reward experience in resilience. Conclusion: Improving the understanding of the links between genetic endowment, environmental impact and gene–environment interactions with developmental psychology and biology is crucial for elucidating the neurobiological and psychological underpinnings of resilience.

This article is from Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , volume 128 . Abstract Objective: To review the literature on psychological and biological findings on resilience (i.e. the successful adaptation and swift recovery after experiencing life adversities) at the level of the individual, and to integrate findings from animal and human studies. Method: Electronic and manual literature search of MEDLINE, EMBASE and PSYCHINFO, using a range of search terms around biological and psychological factors influencing resilience as observed in human and experimental animal studies, complemented by review articles and cross-references. Results: The term resilience is used in the literature for different phenomena ranging from prevention of mental health disturbance to successful adaptation and swift recovery after experiencing life adversities, and may also include post-traumatic psychological growth. Secure attachment, experiencing positive emotions and having a purpose in life are three important psychological building blocks of resilience. Overlap between psychological and biological findings on resilience in the literature is most apparent for the topic of stress sensitivity, although recent results suggest a crucial role for reward experience in resilience. Conclusion: Improving the understanding of the links between genetic endowment, environmental impact and gene–environment interactions with developmental psychology and biology is crucial for elucidating the neurobiological and psychological underpinnings of resilience.

127 pages.  Toolkit curriculum. Has accompanying document "Promoting Older Adult Health" and the video "It Can Happen to Anyone".  National Council on Aging. Helps service providers for the aging learn more about alcohol and medication misuse and mental health problems in older adults to address these issues more effectively. Provides tools such as a program coordinator's guide, suggested curricula, and handouts. The Get Connected  toolkit curriculum was developed in partnership with the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and supported by the Administration on Aging (AoA). This kit provides health and social services providers in the aging services field with health promotion and health education activities to prevent substance abuse and mental health problems in older adults. The toolkit also provides strategies to link providers with substance abuse and mental health experts/organizations in their area. Contained in the kit is a program coordinators guide, fact sheets, self-screening tools, resource list, video on how to talk to older adults about alcohol and medication problems, brochures, and the promising practices publication Promoting Older Adult Health: Aging Network Partnerships to Address Medication, Alcohol and Mental Health Problems and Substance Abuse Among Older Adults: A Guide for Social Services Providers.

Quantitative research that aims to analyze the inter-relationship between IPV variables, including acceptability, knowledge, prevalence, and lifetime exposure (childhood and adulthood); and mental health outcomes within a Bolivian women sample.

Quantitative research that aims to analyze the inter-relationship between IPV variables, including acceptability, knowledge, prevalence, and lifetime exposure (childhood and adulthood); and mental health outcomes within a Bolivian women sample.

Quantitative research that aims to analyze the inter-relationship between IPV variables, including acceptability, knowledge, prevalence, and lifetime exposure (childhood and adulthood); and mental health outcomes within a Bolivian women sample.

Congenital heart disease affects nearly 1% of live births [1]. Medical and surgical treatment has developed during the last fifty years, and today up to 90% of patients survive into adulthood [2]. In relation to this, it is becoming increasingly clear that survivors, in addition to complex physical problems, face an elevated risk of psychological and social challenges. The psychological challenges may include cognitive disabilities and mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, disruptive behaviour, autism spectrum disorder and ADHD [3-6]. Further, both atrial septal defects (ASD) and ventricular septal defects (VSD) are associated with neurocognitive problems [7], that may have serious implications for the child's functioning in school and interaction with others. The challenges of raising a child with a congenital heart disease are evident. Diagnosis and subsequent potential medical and surgical treatment procedures of the congenital heart disease, can cause significant parental psychological and emotional distress [8-12], as they have to cope with fear of losing their child, prolonged hospitalisations and potential separation from close family members, surgical procedures and worries about the future health of their child [13]. At home, after hospital discharge, parents need to obtain a whole new set of "medical expert" skills, as they must learn how to observe and respond adequately to the somatic and psychological needs of their symptomatic or newly operated child [14]. Thus, parents to children with a congenital heart disease are reported to experience higher rates of depression, anxiety and acute and posttraumatic stress themselves [10, 15-17]. This psychological impact on parents might affect the child-parent relationship and parenting behaviours. Parent mental health has an impact on early neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with congenital heart disease [18]. Parental overprotective behaviour during childhood and adolescence might increase heart focused anxiety in adulthood [19] and negative parental rearing behaviour might decrease resilience and increase depressive symptoms in adolescents with congenital heart disease [20] A recent Danish review on family perspectives found that families with a child with congenital heart disease have to navigate through multiple everyday paradoxes, i.e. balancing vigilance and normality [14]. Raising a child with mental health issues comes with its own set of difficulties as parenting abilities often are being put under more stress, which might have a negative impact on the relationship between the parents and affect siblings [21, 22]. Further, parents often have to navigate complex health care and education systems, as well as deal with societal expectations and stigma [23]. Parents to children with poor mental health may have difficulties understanding or making sense of their child's mental health issues, and they possibly blame themselves for the child's struggles [24]. Timely treatment of childhood poor mental health is crucial, as untreated mental health issues might have affect the child's overall functioning and quality of life [25-27], and children with psychopathology have a higher risk of psychopathology in adulthood [28]. However, mental health issues are often overlooked in children and adolescents patients with chronic somatic diseases [29, 30], Several barriers might explain this phenomenon; limited psychiatric experience in somatic health professionals [29, 30], short consultations time [31, 32] and family-related factors such as preference for self-reliance, poor mental health literacy and stigma [33]. Given these findings, it is possible that parenting a child with congenital heart disease as well as mental health issues poses its own unique set of challenges or strengths. The experiences of raising a child with a congenital heart disease might influence the parental perceptions and representations of their child's mental health issues and affect how they support and seek help for their child's mental health. As mental health issues are often under recognized in children and adolescents with chronic somatic disorders, it is further interesting to explore how the parents experience seeking support for the child's mental health issues. It is likely that improved knowledge on parental experiences when raising a child or adolescent with congenital heart disease and concurrent mental health issues will help inform communication in clinical encounters and help clinicians understand and address the unique challenges in these families. However, to the best of our knowledge, lived experiences of parents to children and adolescents with congenital heart disease and concurrent mental health issues has not previously been explored and described in detail based on interviews. The present study is a part of the Mind the Heart research project that 1) investigates the feasibility of using an online parent/child-completed diagnostic assessment for common mental health disorders in children and young people with congenital heart disease, and 2) co-operate with families and health care professionals to develop a website with easy accessible Danish information material on the current knowledge on the association between congenital heart disease and mental health issues, in order to decrease illness uncertainty, dispel stigma and provide self-help resources. 1. Hoffman, J.I. and S. Kaplan, The incidence of congenital heart disease. J Am Coll Cardiol, 2002. 39(12): p. 1890-900. 2. Kempny, A., et al., Meeting the challenge: the evolving global landscape of adult congenital heart disease. Int J Cardiol, 2013. 168(6): p. 5182-9. 3. Olsen, M., et al., Congenital heart defects and developmental and other psychiatric disorders: a Danish nationwide cohort study. Circulation, 2011. 124(16): p. 1706-12. 4. Nyboe, C., et al., Risk of Lifetime Psychiatric Morbidity in Adults With Atrial Septal Defect (from a Nation-Wide Cohort). Am J Cardiol, 2020. 128: p. 1-6. 5. Holst, L.M., et al., Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in children with surgically corrected Ventricular Septal Defect, Transposition of the Great Arteries, and Tetralogy of Fallot. Cardiol Young, 2020. 30(2): p. 180-187. 6. Gonzalez, V.J., et al., Mental Health Disorders in Children With Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatrics, 2021. 147(2). 7. Asschenfeldt, B., et al., Neuropsychological Status and Structural Brain Imaging in Adults With Simple Congenital Heart Defects Closed in Childhood. J Am Heart Assoc, 2020. 9(11): p. e015843. 8. Rempel, G.R., et al., Parenting under pressure: a grounded theory of parenting young children with life-threatening congenital heart disease. J Adv Nurs, 2013. 69(3): p. 619-30. 9. Choi, Y. and S. Lee, Coping self-efficacy and parenting stress in mothers of children with congenital heart disease. Heart Lung, 2021. 50(2): p. 352-356. 10. Golfenshtein, N., et al., Parenting Stress in Parents of Infants With Congenital Heart Disease and Parents of Healthy Infants: The First Year of Life. Compr Child Adolesc Nurs, 2017. 40(4): p. 294-314. 11. Brosig, C.L., et al., Psychological distress in parents of children with severe congenital heart disease: the impact of prenatal versus postnatal diagnosis. J Perinatol, 2007. 27(11): p. 687-92. 12. Woolf-King, S.E., et al., "There's no acknowledgement of what this does to people": A qualitative exploration of mental health among parents of children with critical congenital heart defects. J Clin Nurs, 2018. 27(13-14): p. 2785-2794. 13. Nayeri, N.D., et al., Being parent of a child with congenital heart disease, what does it mean? A qualitative research. BMC Psychol, 2021. 9(1): p. 33. 14. Svensson, M.K., A. Wahlberg, and G.H. Gislason, Chronic Paradoxes: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Family Perspectives on Living With Congenital Heart Defects. Qual Health Res, 2020. 30(1): p. 119-132. 15. Lisanti, A.J., Parental stress and resilience in CHD: a new frontier for health disparities research. Cardiol Young, 2018. 28(9): p. 1142-1150. 16. Woolf-King, S.E., et al., Mental Health Among Parents of Children With Critical Congenital Heart Defects: A Systematic Review. J Am Heart Assoc, 2017. 6(2). 17. Kolaitis, G.A., M.G. Meentken, and E. Utens, Mental Health Problems in Parents of Children with Congenital Heart Disease. Front Pediatr, 2017. 5: p. 102. 18. McCusker, C.G., et al., Determinants of neuropsychological and behavioural outcomes in early childhood survivors of congenital heart disease. Arch Dis Child, 2007. 92(2): p. 137-41. 19. Ong, L., et al., Parental overprotection and heart-focused anxiety in adults with congenital heart disease. Int J Behav Med, 2011. 18(3): p. 260-7. 20. Moon, J.R., et al., The Relationship between Parental Rearing Behavior, Resilience, and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents with Congenital Heart Disease. Front Cardiovasc Med, 2017. 4: p. 55. 21. Leitch, S., et al., Experience of stress in parents of children with ADHD: A qualitative study. Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being, 2019. 14(1): p. 1690091. 22. Chan, K.K.S. and D.C.K. Leung, The Impact of Child Autistic Symptoms on Parental Marital Relationship: Parenting and Coparenting Processes as Mediating Mechanisms. Autism Res, 2020. 13(9): p. 1516-1526. 23. Shorey, S. and T.L. Pereira, Experiences of fathers caring for children with neurodevelopmental disorders: A meta-synthesis. Fam Process, 2022. 24. Hasson-Ohayon, I., et al., Illness representations among parents of children and adults with serious mental disorders: A systematic review and theoretical model. Eur Psychiatry, 2019. 58: p. 27-37. 25. Mojtabai, R., et al., Long-term effects of mental disorders on educational attainment in the National Comorbidity Survey ten-year follow-up. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 2015. 50(10): p. 1577-91. 26. Currie, J., Child health as human capital. Health Economics, 2020. 29(4): p. 452-463. 27. Gruber, J., The problems of disadvantaged youth: An economic perspective. 2009, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report: The university of Chicago Press. p. 115-48. 28. Reef, J., et al., Children's problems predict adults' DSM-IV disorders across 24 years. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 2010. 49(11): p. 1117-24. 29. Hinrichs, S., et al., General practitioner experience and perception of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) care pathways: a multimethod research study. BMJ Open, 2012. 2(6). 30. Glazebrook, C., et al., Detecting emotional and behavioural problems in paediatric clinics. Child Care Health Dev, 2003. 29(2): p. 141-9. 31. Cooper, S., et al., Running out of time: physician management of behavioral health concerns in rural pediatric primary care. Pediatrics, 2006. 118(1): p. e132-8. 32. Meadows, T., et al., Physician "costs" in providing behavioral health in primary care. Clin Pediatr (Phila), 2011. 50(5): p. 447-55. 33. Gulliver, A., K.M. Griffiths, and H. Christensen, Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review. BMC Psychiatry, 2010. 10: p. 113.

developmental psychopathology research, investigating the associations between reactive temperament, emotion regulation and psychopathology/well-being

This article is from Frontiers in Psychology , volume 4 . Abstract Cultural and ethnic identities influence the relationships individuals seek out and how they feel and behave in these relationships, which can strongly affect mental and physical health through their impacts on emotions, physiology, and behavior. We proposed and tested a model in which ethnocultural identifications and ingroup affiliations were hypothesized explicitly to enhance social connectedness, which would in turn promote expectancy for effective regulation of negative emotions and reduce self-reported symptoms of depression and anxiety. Our sample comprised women aged 18–30 currently attending college in the Southwestern US, who self-identified as Hispanic of Mexican descent (MAs; n = 82) or as non-Hispanic White/European American (EAs; n = 234) and who completed an online survey. In the full sample and in each subgroup, stronger ethnocultural group identity and greater comfort with mainstream American culture were associated with higher social connectedness, which in turn was associated with expectancy for more effective regulation of negative emotions, fewer depressive symptoms, and less anxiety. Unexpectedly, preference for ingroup affiliation predicted lower social connectedness in both groups. In addition to indirect effects through social connection, direct paths from mainstream comfort and preference for ingroup affiliation to emotion regulation expectancy were found for EAs. Models of our data underscore that social connection is a central mechanism through which ethnocultural identities—including with one's own group and the mainstream cultural group—relate to mental health, and that emotion regulation may be a key aspect of this linkage. We use the term ethnocultural social connection to make explicit a process that, we believe, has been implied in the ethnic identity literature for many years, and that may have consequential implications for mental health and conceptualizations of processes underlying mental disorders.

This article is from Frontiers in Psychology , volume 4 . Abstract Cultural and ethnic identities influence the relationships individuals seek out and how they feel and behave in these relationships, which can strongly affect mental and physical health through their impacts on emotions, physiology, and behavior. We proposed and tested a model in which ethnocultural identifications and ingroup affiliations were hypothesized explicitly to enhance social connectedness, which would in turn promote expectancy for effective regulation of negative emotions and reduce self-reported symptoms of depression and anxiety. Our sample comprised women aged 18–30 currently attending college in the Southwestern US, who self-identified as Hispanic of Mexican descent (MAs; n = 82) or as non-Hispanic White/European American (EAs; n = 234) and who completed an online survey. In the full sample and in each subgroup, stronger ethnocultural group identity and greater comfort with mainstream American culture were associated with higher social connectedness, which in turn was associated with expectancy for more effective regulation of negative emotions, fewer depressive symptoms, and less anxiety. Unexpectedly, preference for ingroup affiliation predicted lower social connectedness in both groups. In addition to indirect effects through social connection, direct paths from mainstream comfort and preference for ingroup affiliation to emotion regulation expectancy were found for EAs. Models of our data underscore that social connection is a central mechanism through which ethnocultural identities—including with one's own group and the mainstream cultural group—relate to mental health, and that emotion regulation may be a key aspect of this linkage. We use the term ethnocultural social connection to make explicit a process that, we believe, has been implied in the ethnic identity literature for many years, and that may have consequential implications for mental health and conceptualizations of processes underlying mental disorders.

Social relationships may be key determinants of health. Whilst supportive, high-quality social relationships may play a protective role, contrasting effects are observed for relationships characterised by hostility or conflict (Pearce et al., 2023; Santini et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2018) or an absence of connection with others (Holt-Lunstad et al., 2010; Holt-Lunstad & Steptoe, 2022). Empirical findings have indicated the role of social relationships as a determinant of mental health (Christiansen et al., 2021; Santini et al., 2015). A growing body of research has fostered an interest in the unique influence of early social experiences on mental health across the life course (Kalmakis & Chandler, 2015). Childhood and adolescence are sensitive periods for the onset of mental health difficulties. Half of Common Mental disorders (CMDs), observed in adulthood emerge by age 14 (Kessler et al., 2005). Following the COVID-19 pandemic, during which lockdown measures significantly restricted social interaction, understanding the importance of social connections is particularly pertinent to comprehending the impact of these events on population health (Douglas et al., 2020; Houghton et al., 2022). The quality and quantity of our social relationships during early life may influence trajectories in psychological functioning, and thus influence the risk of mental health difficulties across the life course (Almeida et al., 2022; Burstein et al., 2021; Sege et al., 2017). Early life relationships within the family, school, community and friendship domains have been cited as determinants of both child (Clayborne et al., 2021; Raniti et al., 2022) and adult (Iob et al., 2020; Lereya et al., 2015) mental health. Existing research indicates a protective role of good quality relationships against mental health difficulties in early life. However, inconsistency in findings limits the strength of such conclusions. Heterogeneity in results may be attributable to methodological variation in studies, including the sampled population, type of study, and inconsistent adjustment for covariates (Clayborne et al., 2021), reflecting a need to repeat such analyses. Additionally, relatively few studies have utilised prospective data to study social relationship properties across multiple domains of the social environment, such as the school, friends, community and family. Adopting such an approach, informed by Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of development (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006; Oberle et al., 2024) may address knowledge gaps in the relative role of the type and context of social relationships, which may inform the development of effective targets for child and adolescent mental health interventions. The “social climate of adversity”, which describes deficits in relationship quantity and quality associated with socioeconomic disadvantage, has been cited as a driver of inequalities in morbidity (Kivimäki et al., 2020) and mortality (Mackenbach et al., 2008). Resource strain associated with socioeconomic disadvantage may act to moderate psychobiological pathways between social relationships and health (Cassells & Evans, 2020; Khaliq et al., 2022). However, there is a dearth of evidence investigating this interplay, particularly in child and adolescent mental health research. This study aims to address these research gaps by characterising how early-life social relationships within family, school, friendship, and neighbourhood domains may be associated with trajectories in mental health across childhood development, using data from the birth cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study Parents and Children (ALSPAC). This study will also investigate whether resulting associations are moderated by socioeconomic circumstances. Almeida, I. L. D., Rego, J. F., Teixeira, A. C. G., & Moreira, M. R. (2022). Social isolation and its impact on child and adolescent development: a systematic review. Revista Paulista De Pediatria, 40, Article e2020385. https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/2022/40/2020385 Bronfenbrenner, U., & Morris, P. A. (2006). The Bioecological Model of Human Development. In Handbook of Child Psychology (pp. 793-828). John Wiley & Sons. Burstein, D., Yang, C., Johnson, K., Linkenbach, J., & Sege, R. (2021). Transforming Practice with HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences). Maternal and Child Health Journal, 25(7), 1019-1024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03173-9 Cassells, R., & Evans, G. (2020). Concepts from the bioecological model of human development. In Confronting inequality: How policies and practices shape children's opportunities. (pp. 221-232). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000187-010 Christiansen, J., Qualter, P., Friis, K., Pedersen, S., Lund, R., Andersen, C., Bekker-Jeppesen, M., & Lasgaard, M. (2021). Associations of loneliness and social isolation with physical and mental health among adolescents and young adults. Perspectives in Public Health, 141(4), 226-236. https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139211016077 Clayborne, Z. M., Kingsbury, M., Sampasa-Kinyaga, H., Sikora, L., Lalande, K. M., & Colman, I. (2021). Parenting practices in childhood and depression, anxiety, and internalizing symptoms in adolescence: a systematic review. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56(4), 619-638. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01956-z Douglas, M., Katikireddi, S. V., Taulbut, M., McKee, M., & McCartney, G. (2020). Mitigating the wider health effects of covid-19 pandemic response. BMJ, 369, m1557. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1557 Holt-Lunstad, J., Smith, T. B., & Layton, J. B. (2010). Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review. PLoS Medicine, 7(7), e1000316. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 Holt-Lunstad, J., & Steptoe, A. (2022). Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 232-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.07.012 Houghton, S., Kyron, M., Hunter, S. C., Lawrence, D., Hattie, J., Carroll, A., & Zadow, C. (2022). Adolescents' longitudinal trajectories of mental health and loneliness: The impact of COVID-19 school closures. J Adolesc, 94(2), 191-205. https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12017 Iob, E., Lacey, R., & Steptoe, A. (2020). Adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms in later life: Longitudinal mediation effects of inflammation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 90, 97-107. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.07.045 Kalmakis, K. A., & Chandler, G. E. (2015). Health consequences of adverse childhood experiences: A systematic review. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 27(8), 457-465. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/2327-6924.12215 Kessler, R. C., Berglund, P., Demler, O., Jin, R., Merikangas, K. R., & Walters, E. E. (2005). Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62(6), 593-602. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.62.6.593 Khaliq, N., McMunn, A., Machuca-Vargas, C., & Heilmann, A. (2022). Do social relationships mediate or moderate social inequalities in health? A systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-022-01973-w Kivimäki, M., Batty, G. D., Pentti, J., Shipley, M. J., Sipilä, P. N., Nyberg, S. T., Suominen, S. B., Oksanen, T., Stenholm, S., Virtanen, M., Marmot, M. G., Singh-Manoux, A., Brunner, E. J., Lindbohm, J. V., Ferrie, J. E., & Vahtera, J. (2020). Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study. The Lancet Public Health, 5(3), e140-e149. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2468-2667(19)30248-8 Lereya, S. T., Copeland, W. E., Costello, E. J., & Wolke, D. (2015). Adult mental health consequences of peer bullying and maltreatment in childhood: two cohorts in two countries. Lancet Psychiatry, 2(6), 524-531. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(15)00165-0 Mackenbach, J. P., Stirbu, I., Roskam, A.-J. R., Schaap, M. M., Menvielle, G., Leinsalu, M., & Kunst, A. E. (2008). Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries. New England Journal of Medicine, 358(23), 2468-2481. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa0707519 Oberle, E., Ji, X. R., Alkawaja, M., Molyneux, T. M., Kerai, S., Thomson, K. C., Guhn, M., Schonert-Reichl, K. A., & Gadermann, A. M. (2024). Connections matter: Adolescent social connectedness profiles and mental well-being over time. Journal of Adolescence, 96(1), 31-48. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12250 Pearce, E., Birken, M., Pais, S., Tamworth, M., Ng, Y., Wang, J., Chipp, B., Crane, E., Schlief, M., Yang, J., Stamos, A., Cheng, L. K., Condon, M., Lloyd-Evans, B., Kirkbride, J. B., Osborn, D., Pitman, A., & Johnson, S. (2023). Associations between constructs related to social relationships and mental health conditions and symptoms: an umbrella review. BMC Psychiatry, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05069-0 Raniti, M., Rakesh, D., Patton, G. C., & Sawyer, S. M. (2022). The role of school connectedness in the prevention of youth depression and anxiety: a systematic review with youth consultation. Bmc Public Health, 22(1), Article 2152. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14364-6 Santini, Z. I., Koyanagi, A., Tyrovolas, S., Mason, C., & Haro, J. M. (2015). The association between social relationships and depression: a systematic review. J Affect Disord, 175, 53-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2014.12.049 Sege, R., Bethell, C., Linkenbach, J., Jones, J., Klika, B., & Pecora, P. J. (2017). Balancing adverse childhood experiences with HOPE: New insights into the role of positive experience on child and family development. https://hria.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Balancing-ACEs-with-HOPE.pdf Wang, J., Mann, F., Lloyd-Evans, B., Ma, R., & Johnson, S. (2018). Associations between loneliness and perceived social support and outcomes of mental health problems: a systematic review. BMC Psychiatry, 18(1), 156. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1736-5

Introduction: Climate change isn’t just an environmental or economic issue anymore—it’s becoming a serious public health concern, especially when it comes to mental health (Berry et al., 2010; Mental Health and Climate Change, n.d.). Around the world, people are feeling the psychological effects of more frequent and intense climate-related events, whether through direct experiences or the growing fear about what lies ahead (Cunsolo & Ellis, 2018). But understanding exactly how climate change impacts mental health isn’t simple. The effects vary depending on where people live, what kind of events they’re exposed to, and their individual and community-level vulnerabilities. One of the biggest challenges in studying this connection is that there’s no single framework tying everything together. Different fields—like psychiatry, public health, environmental science, and disaster response—all approach the issue in their own way (Charlson et al., 2021). This has led to a growing, but often fragmented, body of research. Some studies look at trauma after disasters, while others focus on longer-term concerns like eco-anxiety or distress linked to losing homes or livelihoods (Pihkala, 2020). Without a common language or structure, it's tough to compare studies or create effective, coordinated responses. Mental health impacts show up in different ways. Some are immediate, like grief or shock right after a flood or wildfire. Others build slowly over time—such as the emotional toll of a years-long drought or chronic anxiety about climate change's future effects (Vins et al., 2015; Hickman et al., 2021). In Indigenous or rural communities, where people's identities are deeply tied to the land, environmental loss can lead to profound emotional and even spiritual suffering (Cunsolo & Ellis, 2018). Entire communities can also be affected, especially when climate change weakens the social networks that people rely on for support (Lawrance et al., 2022). Disasters that force people to leave their homes can break apart communities and make people more vulnerable to mental health problems (Mental Health and Our Changing Climate, n.d.). These disruptions tend to hit marginalized groups the hardest—children, older adults, people with limited resources, and those already living with mental health conditions (Berry et al., 2010). While some researchers have proposed models—like eco-social or trauma-informed approaches—to help make sense of these patterns, these ideas aren’t widely used yet (Charlson et al., 2021). That’s where a scoping review can really help. By mapping out the different ways researchers understand and study this issue, it becomes easier to see what we know, where the gaps are, and what needs to happen next. This kind of work can lay the foundation for better frameworks and more practical, context-sensitive solutions. In the end, understanding how climate change affects mental health can help communities not just cope with what’s happening now, but also build resilience for the future.

Conducted for the Bringing Theory to Practice project, this literature review examines the theoretical and research bases for linking engaged learning, student mental health and well-being, and civic development. The findings of this review are discussed briefly in this article. Current prevention literature recommends a shift from targeted interventions toward community-level approaches in addressing students' mental health concerns. In this article, the author presents a definition of engagement learning and that the concept of engaged learning emerges from multiple theoretical frameworks and educational practices. She examines the two concepts of which it is comprised--"learning" and "engagement" in college.